playing lost levels through all-stars has me understanding the flak it gets a bit more. just a teeny bit - even with the far more generous continue system it has. the enemy ai is far more aggressive and the slight changes to the physics were enough to throw me off. discounting those changes to just one game in this compilation though there's something about the versions of the games here that feels...idk, homogenized? they all use a very similar colour palette and the same samples for the music and it has me missing just how distinct nes mario 1-3 were from one another. like idk if you show me a nes and snes version of a game next to eachother im probably going to lean towards the nes version because of the audio.still a perfectly fine way to play these games and probably the best for most people considering it has built in saves but i think i'll stick to the 8-bit versions